Cyclical Quotes

“We are so old, we have become young again.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life. The past is history. The future is mysterious. Then tomorrow—this starts all over again.”
― Kat Lahr, Parallelism Of Cyclicality

“The perspective changes completely when the sense of the religiousness of the Cosmos becomes lost. This is what occurs when, in certain more highly evolved societies, the intellectual élites progressively detach themselves from the patterns of the traditional religion. Periodical sanctification of cosmic time then proves useless and without meaning. The gods are no longer accessible through the cosmic rhythms. The religious meaning of the repetition of paradigmatic gestures is forgotten. But repetition emptied of its religious content necessarily leads to a pessimistic vision of existence. When it is no longer a vehicle for reintegrating a primordial situation, and hence for recovering the mysterious presence of the gods, that is, when it is desacralized, cyclic time becomes terrifying; it is seen as a circle forever turning on itself, repeating itself to infinity.”
― Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

“Increases in cyclicality result in increases in efficiency which result in increases in productivity which result in increases in profits.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“On the land an oak will grow
On a bough an owl may stand
From lasting cloud a rain will fall
Upon the earth to water seed.

Each to each returns its need
To act upon the other's call
No locking ring may stay the hand
Nor halt the seasons as they flow.

- Little Song”
― John Fairfax, Adrift on the Star Brow of Taliesin

“Why do you think there are no gods on Mount Olympus now? They killed themselves, that’s why. They were terminally bored.”
― Michael Faust, Nietzsche: The God of Groundhog Day

“The universe cannot slide into stasis. It must reach a climax and then begin again. The universe is orgasmic, not “happy”, not “tranquil”. Its job is to achieve peaks, not plateaus and flatlines. If you have peaks, you necessarily have troughs. This really is a rollercoaster ride. It’s inevitable. It’s built into reality. Existence is made of sinusoids, the archetypal rollercoasters, permanently cycling between peaks and troughs. If God is the ultimate peak (zero mental entropy), the Big Bang is the ultimate trough (maximum mental entropy). Do you have the courage and fortitude to be a God? Remember, it’s a rollercoaster ride. You must be ready for the troughs. There are as many snakes as ladders. Everyone’s trying to drag you down.”
― Thomas Stark, The Stairway to Consciousness: The Birth of Self-Awareness from Unconscious Archetypes

“History fancies itself linear - but yields to a cyclical temptation.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Raised as we are on the mythology of the Old Testament, we might say that an idyll is an image that has remained with us like a memory of Paradise: life in Paradise was not like following a straight line to the unknown; it was not an adventure. It moved in a circle among known objects. Its monotony bred happiness, not boredom.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“It all felt oddly cyclical – he called, she came, he tried to lure her into staying. She'd consider staying, though she didn't want to. They'd likely do this artful dance through the final stretch of eternity.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Peace on Earth & Mercy Mild